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...Ochiai was surprised to see Mount Fuji out a left window. "I thought the plane was heading back to Haneda," she said. Actually, radar operators saw the aircraft make a wide circle at this point, fully 360°, near Japan's sacred mountain, which was far north of the planned course to Osaka...
Some of the pictures he took are almost lighthearted. In one, a guard is caught napping in a patch of sunlight; in another, seven hostages are dining in a kitchen, a kettle on the stove, a yellow shirt and underwear drying in the window. But Hill also aimed his camera in earnest, particularly on one occasion when he was able to reach the roof of the building in which he and his fellow hostages were being held, and photographed the neighborhood. "I hoped to take pictures that investigators could use in the future to pinpoint our location," he said...
From his vantage point overlooking the hit-and-run militia battles in the streets below, Waite shouted an apt observation last week from an open window. When a television reporter called up to him, "What do you plan to do now?" Waite replied, "Take cover. This seems to be normal life in Beirut." Indeed it was, and so was the problem of the kidnapings to which Waite had so boldly addressed himself. --By William E. Smith. Reported by Dean Fischer/Cairo and Erik Amfitheatrof/Malta
...special pleading. He could belong with the invalid writers, like Marcel Proust and Flannery O'Connor, whose illnesses gave them a vital solitude. But unlike them, Welch had little interest in society. As his biographer, Michael De-la-Noy, notes, "Politics, literature, indeed the entire world outside his bedroom window, scarcely existed...
...China Window: The Best Way to China Take a look through the window and experience China through history, culture and tourism. Learn about China's financial situation by exploring the economy, market and business sections...